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Roger721
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Hey everybody. Everybody loves random facts, right? So I've created this topic to discuss about them.

They must be interesting and real (no need to cite sources, but they must be real) and (according to the AG rules) they must have 7 or more words.

Let me begin.

In England a woman named Ceejay Epton (age 22) decided to change her name after her son was born. The reason: she wanted to help the baby to learn the alphabet faster. Then she changed her name to

"Ceejay A Apple B Boat C Cat D Dog E Elephant F Flower G Goat H House I Igloo J Jellyfish K Kite L Lion M Monkey N Nurse O Octopus P Penguin Q Queen R Robot S Sun T Tree U Umbrella V Violin W Whale X X-Ray Y Yo-yo Z Zebra Terryn Feuji-Sharemi"

She got the idea from a friend that wanted to be named "Pink" and decided to change her name too.

The good news is that on England, the name changing process is easy and costs £10

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JellyBear
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The average person will spend 2 weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic light to change.

MageGrayWolf
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Toe prints, lip prints, ear prints, and finger prints are all unique.


Tongue prints are also unique.
JellyBear
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40 to 50 percent of body heat can be lost through the head (no hat) as a result of its extensive circulatory network.

SquirrelMaster0282
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in Norway there is a town called hell

ImmigrantSong
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ImmigrantSong
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The Beatles doesn't know how to read their music in the piano. ummm the notes thing.

JellyBear
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Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants.

dudeguy45
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Ontario, Canada has about as much street crime as Disney World.

JellyBear
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The Bible, the world's best-selling book, is also the world's most shoplifted book.

bennyboi
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It is illegal to eat mince pies on christmas day (UK law)

Epic563
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Lamps used to me made from whale fat.

In 1890, Nintendo was a Trading Card Company.

Mario was originally called Jump Man, Pauline was called called "Lady" and Donkey Kong, or gorilla, was Jump Man's pet. Jump Man was a carpenter.

JellyBear
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The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.

AngelOfMarshmallows
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An ostrichâs brain is smaller than its eye.
Sharks are the only known species to never suffer from cancer.
Oysters change from male to female gender several times during their lifespan.
Every shrimp is actually born a male and then become females as they mature.
A mosquito has 47 teeth.
An ostrich's brain is smaller than its eye. =)

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-Every human has spent at least a half hour as a single cell
-Every human is first a female then gradually grows male parts
-The original idea for the time machine in Back to the Future was intended to be a refrigerator
-Dogs can't hear the lowest key on a piano
-It is unlawful to sit on the floor anywhere in the US Capitol as it is considered as protesting
-You are more likely to be struck by lightning than to be attacked and killed by a bear
-Adolf Hitler had only one testicle

daleks
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That e to the pi i equals -1.

This also means that pi=ln(-1)/i and that i=ln(-1)/pi.

For those of you that don't know i= the square root of -1, e= Eurler's number(about 2.7), and ln= natural log.

Cenere
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2012 is actually never going to happen.

So, are we just going to skip to 2013 on the calender??
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